Also, what about walking my pup? Is that okay as long as I don't talk to people?
That should be fine, it doesn't really spread outdoors unless you cough on people.
1. Have you had swine flu? What was it like for you? (Symptoms, duration.)
Nope
2. Do you know anyone who has?
Not IRL.
3. Is your local community being affected? What measures are they taking now?
Vaccinations have started now, risk groups and kids first, then the rest of us will get it from late November.
Edit: The local newspaper reports today that 5 people on the island (population ~55k) have gotten it, 3 of those were in the summer. So not very much at all here, yet.
4. Have you ever been quarantined for any reason? What was it? How did you amuse yourself in the meantime?
Nope
5. Are you nervous about swine flu, or do you still think it's been overblown?
The main risks they're talking about here in the West is probably the hit to the economy, there'll be a whole shitload of working hours lost if 50% of the population gets sick. Fatality-wise it seems no wrose than the regular flu.
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/Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
- 27/10/2009 11:29:51 PM
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It is raging here
- 27/10/2009 11:42:41 PM
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Good on you for getting vaccinated.
- 27/10/2009 11:58:06 PM
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Get better soon!
- 27/10/2009 11:53:27 PM
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of course you can walk pippin!
- 28/10/2009 01:29:23 AM
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- 28/10/2009 01:31:52 AM
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- 28/10/2009 01:31:52 AM
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Re: /Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
- 28/10/2009 01:42:05 AM
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Re: /Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
- 28/10/2009 01:48:58 AM
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I almost feel like I'm coming down with something, but I'm not sure.
- 28/10/2009 03:26:26 AM
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Re: I almost feel like I'm coming down with something, but I'm not sure.
- 28/10/2009 08:40:17 AM
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I think I've had it. Symptoms seemed to match, anyway.
- 28/10/2009 05:31:46 AM
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Odd.
- 28/10/2009 08:27:42 AM
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A final note on my experience with the flu (since all the rest is here).
- 30/10/2009 12:15:40 AM
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I feel I am getting ill this week
- 28/10/2009 08:45:33 AM
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Drink tea, eat oranges.
- 28/10/2009 08:54:44 AM
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- 28/10/2009 08:54:44 AM
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It's not very wide-spread here
- 28/10/2009 09:17:20 AM
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We've had 7 people die from it at my hospital.
- 28/10/2009 09:21:45 AM
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I suspect that working at a hospital gives you a rather biased sample of the populace. *NM*
- 29/10/2009 12:16:16 AM
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According to the CDC, on average 36,000 die from the flu each year in the US.
- 28/10/2009 01:53:35 PM
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Thank you, Greg. Finally, someone points out what it seems the general populace has forgotten!
- 30/10/2009 12:06:23 PM
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I think the worry is just that it's more contagious, which would be bad if a fiercer strain
- 30/10/2009 01:32:00 PM
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